Last active Apr 10, 2018

RÉSUMÉ OF KENNETH M. PIEKARSKI

Kenneth M. Piekarski resides in the Seattle, Washington contributing to
their local music community. They are a producer, musician, radio DJ, promoter,
designer, visual artist, web developer, documentarian, recording engineer,
community organizer and upstanding friend among all else.

For over 10 years, Kenneth has been building websites for artists, bands, small businesses and large enterprises. They're ambitious about problem solving and experienced with both front/back-end programming, SEO, mobile optimization, design, and strives to help clients achieve their goals.

Aside from the development work, Kenneth has produced, performed, and hosted music for hundreds of performers from around the world. They've ran underground venues, festivals and helped many other artists with management, tours and promotion.

Aptitudes

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

2017 – Present // SEATTLE, WA

Contracted to redevelop the non-profit groups company website and related web products building customized WordPress themes from the ground up. Working closely with designers to best optimize user experience for desktop and mobile devices.

2013 – 2016 // ANACORTES / SEATTLE, WA

Hired as a consultant / webmaster for the marketing department for this company of 80+ employees that develops and distributes software for institutional pharmacy software and long term care facilities. My job was to improve and maintain their site and retrofit it for mobile devices. I brought in a design firm to help modernize the design of the site and worked with them to improve usability and content flow. Some changes I made to the site also improved the speed of their site, SEO, and admin customizability.

2010 – 2013 // SEATTLE, WA

I was brought on to be one-half of a Drupal development team that worked with small businesses, large enterprises and non-profits. I was responsible for providing support for clients, implementing designs, and customization.

2007 – PRESENT // SEATTLE, WA

This began as a music documentation project in 2007 for recording local music and making those recordings free and readily available on the internet. The idea is to provide an avenue for underrepresented musicians and artists performing in alternative venues and promote their works. It eventually turned into a record label to put out records for the same underrepresented music. Now it's an ongoing experiment for both functions.

Columbia Basin College

2005 – 2006 // Pasco, WA

VOLUNTEER WORK

2008 – PRESENT // SEATTLE, WA

Core volunteer and technical support specialist for this non-profit community run radio station. I've arranged and host live events at the station, produced radio programs, taught youth workshops about radio, and helped organize our annual month-long station benefit music festival Magma Festival.

2012 – 2014 // SEATTLE, WA

Heartland (for short) was an underground alternative music and performance venue that I co-owned with my friend José Díaz Rohena. We had shared responsibilities with event management, promotion, and development, as well as working on our own specialties. We work with The Vera Project and Shunpike to attempt making Heartland a non-profit with a long-term plan of sustaining the space as an all-ages venue. We discovered that the state of the building hindered any possibility of fulfilling our and ended the project once our lease expired.